Between You and Me...

*pictures owned by Warner Bros.      Few television programs epitomize my childhood as distinctly as the one I'm going to analyze today.  If you were a school-aged student in the late 80's and early 90's, this show was likely a part of your childhood as well.  If you're like me, you watched it on TGIF, and then continued watching it when it was switched to Tuesday night's comedy block.  Even if you aren't in my age bracket, you have likely still watched this show.  I'm talking, of course, about the phenomena known as Full House.            This show was so deeply ingrained into my mind that it was the first thing I thought of when, at age 27, I drove over the Golden Gate Bridge on a trip to visit a friend north of the Bay Area.  The iconic song started playing in my head, and of course, that one question popped into my mind: "Why are Stephanie and DJ up front with their dad, but Jesse and Joey, the two other adults, h...

      Merry Christmas!  As I type this, it is the morning of December 25, 2020.  I just got the turkey in the oven.  My husband and I enjoyed yesterday evening at the Christmas Eve service at church, then went around looking at Christmas Lights.  We are jovial, enjoying the season and also reflecting on Christ coming to earth.        Growing up, I loved watching the fun Christmas movies on TV every year.  I just found one of my old favorites on YouTube.  Upon watching it, I couldn't stop laughing!  I felt it was the perfect candidate to be made fun of in this blog!  My next post really will be about a TV show (I've even started writing it already), but I couldn't resist the opportunity to analyze the 1989 made-for-TV movie, It Nearly Wasn't Christmas .  Whether you ever saw it or not, read on for some good laughs!      This movie is, in some ways, the antitheses of what a jolly Christmas ...

*All pictures owned by Disney      I promise, not all of these posts will be about Disney movies, but they seemed like a fun place to start this blog, particularly since people in general are familiar with them.  I'm thinking my next post will be about a TV show.  Doing my analysis on Beauty and the Beast  got me in the mood of nostalgic times going to the theater growing up.  My family went to see this movie I'm about to discuss between Christmas and New Years Eve of 1989 (around December 28th or thereabout).  We had originally been going to see All Dogs Go To Heaven, but it was sold out, so this was our second choice.  We saw it in the theater next to the Tyler Mall in Riverside, where a Barnes and Nobel store now stands (there's still a mall theater, just not the same one).  I was a few weeks from my eighth birthday, and going to see this movie on the big screen was truly magical to me.  It ceased being magical almost a year late...